So shall this floude of Sabrine haue the name,
That men thereby may say, a righteous Queene
Here drown’d her husband’s childe of concubine.
Therefore leaue Sabrine here thy name and life,
Let Sabrine waters end our mortall strife.”
24.
“Dispatch!” (quoth shee:) With that they bound mee fast,
My slender armes and feete, with[327] little neede:
And sans all mercy, mee in waters cast,
Which drewe mee downe, and cast mee vp with speede,